O.K., let's see some more nice Humorama cartoons that aren't really "spankers" but are in some way suggestive of spanking, at least if your mind is twisted the way mine is!
1. "You can't tame this girl" proclaims the cover of the March, 1954 issue of
Eye. The person who wrote that obviously never heard of
spanking, which will tame even the wildest jungle girl, especially if you take down her loincloth and give it to her on the bare bottom!

So what's the connection to Humorama, you ask? I believe that
Eye was published by
Martin Goodman even at this time, and beginning in Jan. 1960,
Eye was converted to the girls & gags format of the other bi-monthly Humorama digests. It only lasted six issues in this format, however, and disappeared completely after 1960. There were at least two spanking cartoons in
Eye (I have 3 issues and
Steve W. has 1), with two issues remaining rather hard to find.
2. A wife tells her husband that their daughter is getting "too big for her britches," apparently in a double sense given the size of the daughter's derriere:

The mother wants her husband to have a talk with their daughter, but I'd bend her over, stretching those britches even tighter, and express myself in a non-verbal way

. The cartoonist is not known.
3.
Steve W. sent this one along: it's a rare example of pure bondage in Humorama. I really can't make any sense of the gag - it looks like a pair of newlyweds, except they're dressed a little oddly, and the husband has tied up the wife, for what reason isn't clear.

I once wrote that for me, bondage without spanking is like bacon without eggs, and I still feel that way. I've no problem with light bondage, but I can't say it does much for me unless spanking is soon to follow. Perhaps it was here, but the artist, Camillo, whose work occasionally resembles
Kirk Stiles' line drawings, never did any "spankers" that have yet been discovered although he contributed a fair number of cartoons to Humorama over the years. Steve found some evidence that Camillo's real name may have been
Manfred Kreiner, but I couldn't find out anything more about him under that name, either.
4. I wanted to include one example of what I call the "Behind in Jeopardy" type, more of which we'll be seeing in a future article. This one is by
Robert Q. Sale, who did that excellent Combat Casey/Torchy Finnegan spanking in
Combat Casey #7 (see it in Comics Gallery 2 on the main site). Sale did a few Humorama cartoons, making him the only artist I can think of besides
Dan DeCarlo who worked for both Humorama and Timely/Atlas/Marvel at the same time (possibly
Jim Mooney did, also), but did no "spankers" as far as I know. This one is from May 1963, but I forgot to record which digest it was found in.

This is a funny gag, with the cigarette girl selling water pistols so the customers can shoot the chorus girls in the rear end, with targets on the seat of their costumes to guide one's aim.
5. The gag in the next one isn't too clear: a woman regrets having been talked into attending a costume party "dressed" (or undressed) as
Lady Godiva, whose mythical nude ride on horseback has become legendary, and material for more than a few humor cartoons. The pantomime horse here is as usual manned, or horsed, by two guys who seem very pleased with themselves as the woman rubs her smarting bottom, an action that should bring spanking to the mind of any true spanko:

I think the gag is that they've been pinching her, although I suppose she could just be getting saddle-sore. The artist is
Felix Andrews, who did a number of cartoons for Humorama but no "spankers" there, which is too bad because he could certainly draw sexy women. He
did however do a spanking cartoon for
Adam, which I've had in my files for a couple of year now and which we'll see sometime after the current Humorama Series has been concluded.
6. We'll conclude today's lesson with two "pinching" gags, not true spankings of course but at least they have the
behind in mind. First of these is by
Bill Hoest, best known for the comic strip
The Lockhorns, and is set at the Corby carbon company.

No caption available - I forget why - but it was probably something like "I just got pinched by your father, too - you
are a carbon copy!" I suppose I should mention for the benefit of younger readers that carbon copies are what we used back in the typewriter era, because it was cheaper than photocopying. Drat - now I feel old!
7. When sales are down, employees feel the pinch - literally in this cartoon by
Bo Brown, who did the "Miss Gulick's Birthday" spanking cartoon for Humorama and was a more or less regular contributor to the line. He was a really good gag man, maybe the best overall, as we see here with "Miss Ashworth" about to feel the pinch right on her worthy ash!

From the September, 1961 issue of
Comedy.